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Cajun Stir Fry | This Is Why I’m Full

So we recently purchased our own rice cooker, and we have been making a ton and am not kidding when I say a ton of rice. Turns out when you have something that you can set and forget you wind up using it a lot. Making rice has never been so easy and it frees up a burner on the stove for so many things to put on said rice!

If you are looking to purchase a rice cooker, I would go with this one (click the link to view the steamer!) it is the one the hubby and I got, and it is amazing! You can steam your vegetables and your rice at the same time! It’s hands off cooking at its best!

This recipe came about when we saw bell peppers on sale and wondered what could be made with them? As it turns out we both had the same idea with what we could do with them, use the rice cooker! This dinner idea came out quite well for slapping something together with what was on sale at our local grocer. I paired the rice and vegetable mix with some delicious home made bread that was made the night before, and as always everything was awesome!

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Nutrition Facts

Cajun Stir Fry

Amount Per Serving

Calories 571Calories from Fat 135

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 15g23%

Saturated Fat 4g20%

Polyunsaturated Fat 3g

Monounsaturated Fat 0.3g

Cholesterol 80mg27%

Sodium 2798mg117%

Potassium 1413mg40%

Total Carbohydrates 85g28%

Dietary Fiber 18g72%

Sugars 18g

Protein 36g72%

Vitamin A156%

Vitamin C513%

Calcium19%

Iron29%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Above are the nutrition facts for this dish. Not sure how much we’ll use this plugin, If it’s useful to you let us know and we will put it in more recipes!

Easy Macaroni Salad |This Is Why I’m Full

Summer time is coming up and what goes better with summer than an easy Maaroni Salad? Maybe hot dogs and hamburgers or the elusive hamburger dog. This is a classic recipe that you may already have, if not give it a try its absolutely delicious come summer.

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Homemade Jalapeno Black Beans | This Is Why I’m Full

These Homemade Jalapeno Black Beans are a very versatile thing to always have ready to eat, you can make a whole bunch and keep them in your freezer and just pull them out and defrost when you need a quick and easy side dish! The reason the recipe calls for so much stuff is that when we make them we make a lot. that way we don’t have to spend 45 minutes making them every time we want some! The really cool part about this Homemade Jalapeno Black Beans recipe is that you don’t have to eat them just as a side dish, you can add a can of tomatoes and a pound of ground meat and boom you have homemade Chili! Or you can add a little more broth and some shredded chicken and you have spicy chicken soup. These beans are a staple in our little household, and we eat them all the time! Another really great thing about these is that you can also make them in the crock pot! Just cook up the veggies and dump it all in the Crock Pot and walk away! This truly is a great recipe! Think of all the things you can make these beans into! Let us know what you think of our Homemade Jalapeno Black Beans and comment below with any questions/suggestions! Be sure and sign up for our Newsletter where we will be posting and sending out recipes we are going to make and giving you the opportunity to give us suggestions for what we should make next! Enjoy!

These Red Beans and Rice were one of hubby’s best dinner ideas. We have made it three or four times now and it tastes better every time!

Red Beans and Rice|This Is Why I’m Full

Truth be told, I’m not really a rice person at all. I have never been. It makes the hubby sad sometimes because he really likes rice and we don’t ever eat it. But when it comes to these Red Beans and Rice I will eat them all day, every day! So tasty! We made this after we went to Popeye’s for the first time and I discovered a love for red beans and rice.. And Dan said that we couldn’t eat there every night. (He’s no fun!) So I went on Pinterest and found a recipe that sounded delicious and easy. And it was! I really loved it, and it was better than Popeye’s because it was sooooo much cheaper. And there was a lot of leftovers so we had lunch for a week and a second dinner off of it, hooray!

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We went freezer meal crazy awhile back, and one of the things we made was Mongolian Beef, but we had extra steak so we stuck it in the freezer, where it lay forgotten for about a month.. And then one Sunday I had a craving for Chili but didn’t want to go to the grocery store (lazy, lazy, lazy Sunday) and then my wonderful husband remembered the extra steak! So we took it and dumped all of the veggies and beans we had in the fridge/cupboard into the Crock Pot and a few hours later we had some amazing chili! There is nothing in the world I would rather do on a chilly Sunday evening than watch a movie and eat something nice and warm!

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Here’s another installment in our Crock Pot adventure! I should number these posts to see how many Crock Pot meals we make in a year. I could make a spreadsheet and chart when we make Crock Pot meals most often, and graph… and maybe I should get another hobby.

Anyway, this recipe has BACON in it! I was excited when this recipe was picked out by my wife, she said “hey look this has bacon in it, you’ll like it wont you?”

Yes. Yes I do like it. Remember when I was eating chips with Crock Pot dinners? This was one of them, and my wife judged me for it and you probably will too. I don’t know why, but plain corn chips and Crock Pot meals just go hand in hand with me. Back to the recipe though you add your pasta towards the end of cooking this dinner, maybe half an hour before you want to serve it so the noodles have time to cook too. Make sure at that point that you stir the pasta otherwise you’ll end up with a few crunch and a few mushy pieces of pasta. I also want you to beware, this recipe makes a lot of food. We have quite a large Crock Pot so if yours is under 5 quarts you might want to scale this one back. Or buy a larger Crock Pot and make all of the food in one go, then you’ll have leftovers for weeks!

Let us know what you think and comment below with any questions/suggestions! Be sure and sign up for our Newsletter where we will be posting and sending out recipes we are going to make and giving you the opportunity to give us suggestions for what we should make next! Enjoy!!